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4 Important Tools In An Android Application Development Work

Understanding your Android application development tools allow you to spend less time writing boilerplate code and solving the same problems over and over again. Understanding your Android application development tools allow you to spend less time writing boilerplate code and solving the same problems over and over again. Here are 4 out of seven tools every Android application developer should familiarize themselves with to make their workflow more efficient and solve new problems.

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4 Important Tools In An Android Application Development Work

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  1. 4 Important Tools In An Android Application Development Workflow Understanding your Android application development tools allow you to spend less time writing boilerplate code and solving the same problems over and over again. Understanding your Android application development tools allow you to spend less time writing boilerplate code and solving the same problems over and over again. Here are 4 out of seven tools every Android application developer should familiarize themselves with to make their workflow more efficient and solve new problems

  2. Quick Assistant Shortcut You might be familiar with the Cmd-1 keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-1 in Windows). It allows you to pull up quick-fix when you’re in the code editor:

  3. Not only can you invoke quick assistant in the Java editor, it’s also very useful in the XML editor. This brings us to our second tip. Did you know that you can auto complete in other places as well. For example you can turn a Java string into an XML string resource: Not only can you invoke quick assistant in the Java editor, it’s also very useful in the XML editor. This brings us to our second tip.

  4. Extract Style from Existing XML Element If you have visual parameters that you use often re-use, such as a header color, drop shadow, and text style, it’s best to reduce redundancy by creating a style that encapsulates these parameters. This Android application development tool makes this much easier to do correctly. Just place the cursor on your view element and invoke quick assistance with Cmd-1:

  5. The extracted style will automatically be placed in the styles.xml file, and the tool will even look for and replace other instances of the same style parameters. As you can see, quick assistance brings up other nice tool features besides extracting style Creating New Activities using the Manifest Editor During the process of android application development, new activity classes need to be created quite regularly. The Manifest Editor has made The next time you want to create a new Activity class in your, don’t use the Eclipse new class wizard. Instead, go to the “Application” tab of the manifest editor. At the bottom of the page, you’ll see a list of application nodes, including existing services and activities. Click “Add…” and select Activity. The new activity node does not yet have a name, when it’s selected the Attributes for Activity pane show up to the right:

  6. Click on the “Name*” hyperlink and it will open up a New Java Class dialog, with Activity already selected as a super class. If you always remember to create a new Activity this way, not only is it faster,  but you’ll never run into the problem where the you forget to declare your activity in the manifest, or accidentally spell activity’s package name incorrectly in the manifest.   isInEditMode() Check for Custom View After creating a custom View of View Group and inserting it in your layout XML file, the Android layout preview editor often has a difficult time rendering the new View. One problem could be that your custom view uses classes or methods available only while running on the device, but not while being rendered in the editor (eg. disk and network access). In the following snippet, a custom view uses isInEditMode to determine whether or not it is being rendered inside the editor, and if so then loads test data instead of real data.

  7. ? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 public ChartView(Context context) {     super(context);     if (isInEditMode()) { addFakeChartData();     } else { readChartDataFromDisk();     } }

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